Clerk murdered in south Stockton

STOCKTON – An unidentified man was murdered while working inside a south Stockton store shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, police said.

The victim was an adult male who was working as a clerk at Paisano Market at 2460 E. Main St., said Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department. The man was taken to San Joaquin General Hospital, where he died less than an hour later, Silva said, adding to Stockton's record number of homicides.

Police were still on the scene gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses late Saturday. They could not immediately provide a description of the gunman or the vehicle in which he fled, Silva said.

The shooting occurred three miles from the location where another man sustained life-threatening injuries when he was shot in the head in a drive-by shooting that also left a woman with critical injuries Friday night in the 400 block of West Third Street. That man, who has yet to be identified, remained in critical condition Saturday night, Silva said. The woman was listed in serious but stable condition, Silva said.

This is the 64th homicide Stockton police have investigated this year and the third in the past seven days. King Vang, 21, of Elk Grove, was killed in Stockton on Nov. 11. Ounheuane Chantrirock, 34, of Stockton, was found dead Tuesday in a Mitsubishi Montero in the parking lot at the Red Roof Inn on West Fremont Street. Police believe she was the victim of a murder-suicide.